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...looking for savings. Their searches (those containing "cheap," "discount," or "bargain") are dominated by travel-related terms such as "cheap airline tickets," "cheap hotels," "cheap cruises" and car rentals. Searches for electronics, autos and other expensive items are less likely to be preceded by a deal "qualifier." This focus on travel may be due to the fact that consumers expect the greatest room for price fluctuations when booking flights, hotels and rental cars...
...covering disgraceful coups or scrappy jungle wars, posterity likes them to advance to gurgling senility, feted by models, retrospectives and hand-numbered editions. There is no romance in death by lapse of concentration - especially not in a man whose defining artistic characteristic was his undivided presence in, and intense focus on, the moment...
...TIME: As you say, democracy is a destination rather than a present reality. Meles: While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance. And to do so all the way to the grass roots. Democracy cannot be a plaything for the capital cities. It has to infiltrate every nook and cranny in the country, including the village...
...many of these fashion conglomerates, success today stems from the ability to generate profits from high-margin businesses like accessories. Permira will certainly focus on that arm of the Valentino business, currently considered vastly underdeveloped. The real test, though, in this new game of private equity ownership in fashion will be how they read the fickle ways of an industry that in 10 years has gone from primarily family-owned labels to global luxury conglomerates. Many observers also feel that star power is necessary to generate sales. While others think that the brand should be the main focus...
...place and bollix antiwar Democrats by announcing a quick withdrawal of a brigade or two from Anbar and the north, but that will be politics, not policy. And policy-the question of what, if any, role the U.S. military should have in Iraq-is where the congressional questioning should focus. Will Petraeus propose moving U.S. troops into the restive Shi'ite south? What will he do about Basra, the crucial southern oil port where the British retreat has left slow-motion anarchy, a Shi'ite gang war? What will he do about Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army...